America’s foster care population has swelled to 428,000 children — its largest size since 2008, according to the KIDS COUNT Data Center. More children in foster care means that more families are crossing paths with the country’s child welfare system.

It’s a system that Rafael López — the managing director of Accenture’s health and public services practice — knows extremely well. Prior to working at Accenture, López served as the commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which has primary responsibility for the nation’s foster care system.

“The tools of the 21st-century technology are applied to everything — from ordering books on Amazon Prime and having them delivered to your home today, to the way in which one orders pizza…Why is it that we are not more urgently and more robustly taking those tools and applying them in ways that matter in child welfare?” -- Rafael López

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